Improvement in vehicle-wheels



UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH MOUNTS, OF HILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,360, dated January 16, I877 application filed September 9, 1876.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH MOUNTS, of Hill, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Wagon-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representa- .tion of a front elevation of mywagon-wheel,

and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views thereof. I

This invention relates to wagon-wheels;

and it consists in the employment of a tapertherein. Said spokes are alternately arranged,

and inwardly inclined, relatively to the middle of the length of the hub, or double-staggered, so that while their tenons, mortised into the hub, are separated, series from series, by an annular central space, their tapering sides of hub A, and is interposed between spoke series B and spoke series B. Said ring or annular flange is thickest where it touches the hub, and tapers gradually outward, so as to fit snugly between the converging or double-staggered spokes, and effectually brace the same. The individual spokes of each series are similarly separated, and braced by plates or blocks D D, interposed between them, and secured rigidly to hub A. Said ring or flange O, and said plates or blocks D D, are, preferably, constructed either of wrought-iron or cast-iron. If desired, they may be made in one piece.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tapering annular bracing-flange O and plates D, in combination with the hub A and staggered spokes B B, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I'claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HUGH MOUNTS. ,VVitnesses LEVI HILDEBRAN, WILLIAM GLENDENER. 

